Obama punts to earlier time for jobs speech

WASHINGTON - President Obama backpedaled Thursday from going up against the NFL next week - after Republicans sacked his initial plans for a congressional address....


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Motorcyclist dies during rescue attempt mishap

The rescue of a Brooklyn motorcyclist pinned under a car went awry Thursday when the vehicle fell as emergency workers were lifting it - and the young man later died....


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Frisky NYPD cops near record for stops

NYPD cops have stopped and questioned people at an increasing rate this year that could lead the department to set an all-time high by year's end.

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Offering Funds, U.S. Agency Dreams of Sending Humans to Stars

The government agency that helped invent the Internet now wants to do the same for travel to the stars. In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and star-struck organization roughly $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take — organizationally, technically, sociologically and ethically — to send humans to another star, a challenge of such magnitude that the study alone could take a hundred years.

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Italy’s Government Grapples With Deficit, Its Will Still Uncertain

ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government has kicked into high gear, working over the August holidays to find ways to eliminate Italy’s budget deficit by 2013 as it pledged to do last week after the country was caught in the crosshairs of the sovereign debt crisis.

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Born To Run 5K Memorial Race In Wayne Will Benefit Injured Baseball Player, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

WAYNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Over 400 participants are expected to come together in northern New Jersey on Saturday for a race which will honor the short life of one local man and simultaneously provide hope and aid to the family of young boy from the same town.

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Planners: Suffolk population to hit 1.74M

Suffolk's population will top out at 1.74 million -- 240,000 more people than today -- when the county is fully built out by 2035, according to the initial phase of a new county master plan.

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